Music Reviews
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
Phoenix is a newly popular band that had a song recently featured on a car commercial. This song, “1901″, became wildly popular and led to the band gaining a much larger fan base and gaining a lot of popularity. After hearing this song, I purchased every single one of …
Celtic Christmas III: A Windham Hill Sampler
In 1997, Michael O Domhnaill and Windham Hill Records produced “Celtic Christmas III: A Windham Hill Sampler.” The compilation includes twelve favorites from previous Celtic Christmas compositions, such as “The Wexford Carol,” “Circle of Joy,” “A Raven in the Snow,” and “Coinnle an Linoh Losa.” The soothing melodies and …
Flogging Molly - Salty Dog (Song)
Salty Dog is a song by Flogging Molly which appears on their album Swagger. The track starts off fairly quietly with just an acoustic guitar strumming a chord progression and then a fiddle playing a lead over it before the rest of the band comes in to double this …
Celine Dion’s All The Way: A Decade of Song Album
Obviously, I’m a huge Celine Dion fan, otherwise, I wouldn’t own this album, which effectively chronicles the artists hit songs for an entire decade. But more than that, I just love to listen to all the songs in this album, since Dion always sings in a heartfelt manner.
She …
“Be Without You”
“Be Without You”
Performer: Mary J. Blige
Every since I can remember, I have been a fan–I use the term loosely–of Mary J. Blige’s music. I say I use the term loosely because I don’t really consider myself a fan: Fans stand out in the rain for concert tickets; fans plaster …
Nickelback
Nickelback is my favorite band. They sing so many good songs like Someday, this is how you remind me, photographs, if everyone cared, and rockstar. I love to just relax in my room and listen to the best band sing their hearts out. They are a …
Birdman 5 Star Stunna
Birdman aka Baby’s latest album entitled “5 Star Stunna” was a big disappointment to me when I first heard it. The production on the album was good, but the lyrical content just wasn’t there. It’s a shame that the beats that Birdman selected went to waste. …
The Who Tommy
This is The Who’s fourth album, Tommy, a 1969 double album, (a single album on cd) a concept album or “rock opera” about a deaf dumb and blind kid, the album tells the story of Tommy, Tommy’s father is an airforce pilot who goes missing in WWI before he …
The Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia (Song)
Sugar Magnolia is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their record American Beauty. Sugar Magnolia opens up with a bouncy sounding rhythm which has an extremely lighthearted tone to it and you can certainly tell that this song will be a lot better than an average …
Maroon 5 - Must Get Out
Maroon 5 is the great alternative rock band that I always love. Their song is always make my emotion speak and feel like I’m involved in their song like this one —˜Must Get Out’. This song is from the album —˜Songs About Jane’, and again, this song is also …
Elliot Smith’s Album XO
When we think about Elliot Smith, several things may come to mind. We might be reminded of beauty, harmony, tragedy, love, and the mysteries behind our emotions. Elliot, before his tragic passing (suicide), released many impressive albums, with countless hits and demonstrations of incredible talent.
One of my particular favorites …
Laskar Pelangi Nidji
There is no doubt that Nidji is one of the most Famous bands in Indonesia and I believe, regarding that, Mira Lesmana (Producer of Laskar Pelangi) chose them to contribute one song for Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Army), a movie based on best-seller book by Andrea Hirata about teachers who …
Darius Rucker
This guy is awesome. If you don’t remember, he’s the guy from Hootie and the Blowfish. He came out with a country album and it’s amazing, simply amazing. His voice is so on the money; it’s unique and beautiful and rich. I really and truly do not like country …
Stair Way to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
My kids think I’m old school because I mostly prefer country music now days. However every now and them I shock them when I listen to songs like ‘Stair Way to Heaven’ by Led Zeppelin. What they don�t realize is I was a kid once too. That I …
For beginners guitars
Alot of people for first guitars are picking up cheap imitational fender guitars all of which feature awful strings and a crap fretboard. The only reason they pick up is for there price of around 150 with a small sometimes battery powered amp.
If you are seriously looking into …
Don’t blink by Kenny Chesney
Don’t blink by Kenny Chesney is a song about how if you blink your whole life can go faster than you think. It’s like telling you not to waste a minute of your life because you never know what you may miss and you don’t want to miss a …
Pink Floyd - The Wall (Side II)
Overview - Side II of The Wall by Pink Floyd is a huge improvement after side I, which wasn’t terrible but at the same time it didn’t really make me too eager to hear the rest of the album. Side II just had better songwriting overall, and although there …
Cream - Goodbye
Overview - Goodbye, Cream’s final record, is an album split into three previously heard live tracks and three brand new tracks recorded in the studio. Both of these categories has something to offer that the other doesn’t and this concept is actually a pretty interesting one. If I were …
The Rolling Stones - Break The Spell (Song)
Break The Spell is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Steel Wheels. This song starts off with sort of an odd sounding guitar riff which goes back and forth between the right and left channel in sort of a sweeping effect. Jagger comes in …
Eminem - Kim (Song)
Kim is a song by Eminem which appears on his album The Marshall Mathers LP. The track opens up in an innocent enough fashion with Eminem talking to his daughter, but a listener should soon hear the cynical tone which emerges from Eminem’s voice. For those of you who …
Forever and Always by Taylor Swift
Everyone seems to love Taylor Swift these days, including me. But I liked her before she got big, when she first came out with songs like “Tim McGraw” and “Teardrops on my Guitar”. On Taylor Swift’s new CD, she has this song called “Forever and Always”. If you get …
Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive (Song)
Interstellar Overdrive is a song by Pink Floyd which appears on their debut record, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. If you can’t tell by just the title of the track, I’ll mention that this song has a very space-like sound and it’s also sound quite psychedelic as …
Happenings by Crosby and Nash
Happenings, the new album by Crosby and Nash feels familiar, but not repetitive. It feels like a telephone call from an old friend rather than a pre-recorded telephone marketing call during dinner.
Like so much of the Baby Boomer generation, Crosby and Nash have made their peace with the problem …
Chicago band
“Chicago”, not to be confused with the city located in the United States, is the name of a popular American rock band. Just recently, I think last year maybe they had their first concert in Jamaica at the “Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival” and a lot of people, …
The Beatles - I Want To Tell You (Song)
I Want To Tell You is a song by The Beatles which appears on their album Revolver. Opening up with a lighthearted guitar riff that gradually fades into the song, other instrumentation also joins in which gives the track a whole sound before the vocals also come in with …
Green Day - 86 (Song)
86 is a song by Green Day which appears on their album Insomniac. The track opens up with a very energetic drum rhythm before the bass and guitar join in after a pick scrape from Armstrong. As usual, Armstrong plays his characteristic three-chords but Dirnt’s bass line is pretty …
Erotic Lounge (Deluxe Edition)
This Erotic Lounge (Deluxe Edition) was borrowed from my friend the other day, as I wanted something sexy to listen to, and she recommended me to this CD.
It sounds kinky, but it’s not really, actually. The front cover is pretty interesting. It is a picture of a …
Megadeth - Victory (Song)
Victory is a song by Megadeth which is the closing track of their album Youthanasia. The track starts off with Mustaine singing in an incredibly angry mood along with a bass line and a heavy guitar rhythm which comes in and out of the song. If you’re familiar with …
A Night At The Spleen - Closure in Moscow
As a longtime fan of progressive/experimental music, I often gravitate towards sound patterns that seem to buck the norm, and stand out as truly not heard in mainstream music. Closure in Moscow usually does a pretty decent job of creating songs that sound as though they were never meant …
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
This CD collection, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is definitely amazing. Lauryn Hill is simply a Diva in her own right and with her very unique voice, the finished product of this album is simply satisfying for me. Her huge success first started with the track “Killing Me …
Eminem - Relapse
I’m surprised to see I’m the first one who makes the review for this album (from what I’ve searched). As a side note this is my first review here. :)
Eminem comes back after a very long pause (at least for me). Since the “Encore” which was released in 2004 …
NOW 68 CD
NOW 68 is a CD compilation featuring tracks by artists such as The Hoosiers, Take That, Leona Lewis, Sean Kingston and many more. The CD is published by EMI is copyright 2007.
The songs are all popular songs that have made it into the charts. They are mainly pop …
Grim Dylan
Grim Dylan is an all girl punk trio from the Midlands region of the UK. Consisting of Vicky tearing up the guitar, Ro keeping the pace with her powerful drum rhythms, and Suki providing hypnotizing vocals and bass riffs. Although the band has been together a little over …
Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy
This album was supposedly 15 years in the making and is rumoured to have cost Axl Rose 15 million dollars. There have been stories and rumours about its recording and release ever since Guns’ untimely demise in the first half of the nineties. As a big fan of the …
Empire of The Sun - Walking on A Dream
First time I hear ‘Walking On a Dream’ from Empire of The Sun, I really want to listen to this song more and more. First, I don’t know who sing this good song, until i search on Google with some part of lyrics as a keyword and finally I …
American Hero Concert
When I first heard about the American Hero Concert (held this past Saturday), I was interested in attending it. Both because it was at Swan Park, just down the street from me and because I grew up an Army brat and understand the importance in showing both support for …
Oh (2005): Ciara ft. Ludacris
Ciara ft. Ludacris
“Oh”
Goodies
LaFace Records
Director: The Fat Cats
Ciara’s “Oh” is the third single and music video from the “Goodies” album, following “Goodies” and “1, 2 Step”, the Fat Cats direct this time around. Ciara is sitting with little Ciara as she watches a video player which, upon zooming in, shows …
Dreamend-Stigmata Boy
Dreamend is an underappreciated post-rock or showgaze band that has actually been quite productive over the last ten years. Stigmata Boy is one of their earliest recordings and has more singing in it than other of their albums. In most cases I don’t like to much of singing in …
Can We (1997): SWV ft. Missy Elliott
Artist: SWV ft. Missy Elliott
Video: “Can We”
Album: Release Some Tension/”Booty Call” Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: RCA Records
“Can We” is the first single and music video from SWV’s third album titled “Release Some Tension”, following the previous “It’s About Time” and “New Beginning”. “Can We” is also a single and music …
The Flaming Lips - Hold Your Head (Song)
Hold Your Head is a song by the Flaming Lips which appears on their album Hit To Death In The Future Head. Opening up with some noise effects, actual instrumentation begins to come in after around twenty seconds to create an atmosphere which sounds pretty empty and confusing in …
Ratatat - Seventeen Years (Song)
Seventeen Years is a song by Ratatat and is the opening track to their self-title debut record. After a brief audio recording, the band launches into the main riff of the track, and I would go far as to say that if you don’t enjoy this riff, this track …
Beat the Devils Tattoo 2010 Album by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Even though I am a fan of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and listened to some of their albums as soon as they were released, which was certainly the case with their 2003 album Take Them On, On Your Own, and their 2005 album Howl, I actually missed the release …
Thriller by Michael Jackson
Over the years, Michael Jackson was become more well-known for his eccentricities than for his music.
However, if there was ever a time when his self-proclaimed ‘King of Pop’ status was justified, the Thriller era was it. Jackson’s 1982 album release ‘Thriller’ was one of the largest commercial successes …
Animal Collective - Grass (Song)
Grass is a song by Animal Collective and is the second track on their album Feels. Opening up with an energetic guitar part similar to that which opened up Did You See The Words, Animal Collective waste absolutely no time in establishing a definitive rhythm and an excellent mood …
Yamaha Electronic Keyboard
Electronic keyboards are good fun, we decided to invest in one and started looking closely at all the keyboards advertised on the Amazon website. We found the Yamaha YTP200 a reasonably priced keyboard at £56
The whole family are music lovers and keyboard music would be great to use for …
Fun, Fun, Fun (song) by The Beach Boys
“Fun, Fun, Fun” is one of the best known of The Beach Boys’ 1960s hit songs, and it has kept what I think is a deserved popularity right up to the present day. It is a short song, at only two and a third minutes in length, and it …
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Long Hot Summer Night (Song)
Long Hot Summer Night is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience which appears on their record Electric Ladyland. The song starts off with a nice guitar riff from Hendrix in the right channel of the song before the other instruments join in as well establishing a nice sound. …
Pantera Far Beyond Driven
This album was released in 1994 on East west records and produced by Terry Date. The album features a controversial image of a man being drilled into his forehead, the album’s original artwork depicted a person being drilled in the anus and had to be changed to the drillbit …
Muse - Plug In Baby (Song)
Plug In Baby is a track by Muse which appears on Origin Of Symmetry. Along with Knights Of Cydonia, Plug In Baby seems to be one of the more well known songs by Muse, because it appeared on I believe Guitar Hero or possibly Rock Band. However, the difference …
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